Archive for the ‘Book and Author News’ Category

This list is for my reference mostly. Release dates for books that I’m really looking forward to. August 24th Suzanne Collins – Mockingjay (Hunger Games, #3) December 8th L.J. Smith – Midnight (The Vampire Diaries: The Return, #3) December 28 Karen Marie Moning – ShadowFever (Book 5 in the Fever series) January 2011 Awakened (House [...]

I would be remiss if I didn’t mention something about this here. It’s sad, frankly, how many of the greats are passing on this year. I have never read a Salinger book, but he was a fantastic author by all accounts. I’m a week late in posting, but I’ve had a lot going on. Author [...]

‘Spenser’ novelist Robert Parker dies in Mass. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Robert B. Parker, the blunt and beloved crime novelist who helped revive the hard-boiled genre and branded a tough guy of his own through his “Spenser” series, has died. He was 77. An ambulance was sent to Parker’s home in Cambridge on Monday morning for [...]